Browsing: Genius

Born to a family with a tragic past, Katharine Burr Blodgett defied the expectations of her upbringing as an upper-middle class girl to make chemistry and…

When To Kill a Mockingbird was published in the summer of 1960, it seemed to have sprung from nowhere, like an Alabamian Athena: a perfectly formed novel…

Fourteen of the new MacArthur fellows announced Wednesday are associated with universities. ilbusca/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images Numerous academics are part of the 2025 class of MacArthur Foundation…

Now, the public can access the archive to learn about Bowie’s character and methods. Last week, the V&A East Storehouse, an outpost of the Victoria and…

There are many anecdotes about Hermeto Pascoal, the Brazilian musician who died on Saturday at the age of 89, that have become the stuff of legend.…

Gerrymandering is the practice of redrawing the boundaries of political districts to favour certain parties or politicians.On Friday, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a new redistricting…

Earlier today I set three gerrymandering logic puzzles. Here they are again with solutions.In each of the grids below, the challenge is to find the unique…

Once upon a time there was a girl who lived in a tree. She had deep-set brown eyes and brown hair. She ate fruit – orange…

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.“When Paul Morphy plays seven games of…